Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

About this course

This course provides knowledge and skills to implement the DevOps practices of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Microsoft Azure.

The course will provide knowledge of continuous integration builds, automated testing and continuous delivery and deployment build, test, and release to the next level by understanding how they function within a DevOps development environment.

The course will also cover how VSTS integrates with third party and OSS tools, such as Git and Jenkins,

The course is intended for IT Professionals who are interested in crossing over into development territory towards the goal of establishing a DevOps culture, and Developers who want to learn more about the development processes of DevOps in order to extend upon Agile processes for rapid delivery.

Students curious about DevOps practices as a culture shift, but do not have extensive experience with VSTS or Microsoft Azure, should be able to follow the procedural and expository explanations of continuous integration and continuous delivery.

What you'll learn

Configure Git and TFVC version control options for Continuous Integration

Automated provisioning and de-provisioning of infrastructure and databases D

Deployment groups, feature flags and recovery automation

Database deployment in release pipelines

Continuous deployment with Jenkins and VSTS

Prerequisites

Experience working in an organization delivering software,either in development or in operations

Knowledge and experience working with Cloud based solutions,experience using Microsoft Azure.

Course Syllabus

Module 0: Welcome to Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

Course Overview

Before Starting This Course

Pre-Course Survey

Module 1 | Continuous Integration

Continuous Integration

Pipelines and Agents

Technical Debt

Module 1 Review Questions (Ungraded)

Module 2 | Package Management

Package Management

Module 2 Review Questions (Ungraded) current section

Module 3 | Continuous Delivery

Release Pipelines

Environments and Tasks

Test Automation

Advanced Delivery

Module 3 Review Questions (Ungraded)

Module 4 | Continuous Deployment

Continuous Deployment

Advanced Continuous Deployment

Module 4 Review Questions (Ungraded)

Module 5 | Practice Labs

Practice Labs

Final Exam (Graded)

Final Exam(Graded)

Post-Course Survey

Meet the instructors

Tarun Arora

Microsoft MVP, author, and trainer
Microsoft

Tarun Arora is a Microsoft MVP, author, and trainer on DevOps. He is obsessed with high-quality, working software, continuous delivery, and Agile practices. Tarun heads DevOps for Avanade, UK, a Microsoft Gold Partner. You can find more DevOps-focused content on his blog www.visualstudiogeeks.com. For latest and greatest in DevOps, follow Tarun on Twitter @arora_tarun.